I am a new keyer and I find the help to be somewhat disorganized and I keep finding new places to look. I can see from this area I have been making the error of converting 2 digit dates to 4 digits because this was in the keying standards but is project specific to this one? I wonder why the Sen for Senator is accepted but Cong for Congressman is not? Is there a way for you to add this. I do know I can accept all instances on the same card but I have had more Cong than Sen and it is annoying. Thank you.

I am a new keyer and I find the help to be somewhat disorganized and I keep finding new places to look. I can see from this area I have been making the error of converting 2 digit dates to 4 digits because this was in the keying standards but is project specific to this one? I wonder why the Sen for Senator is accepted but Cong for Congressman is not? Is there a way for you to add this. I do know I can accept all instances on the same card but I have had more Cong than Sen and it is annoying. Thank you.

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I am another new keyer. I am looking at cards that appear to relate to fines assessed by INS. I have 3 questions: (1) Is the fine title and/or number the subject? It appears on either the upper left or the right upper. (2) Is the fine number the INS Reference number? Again, it appears on either the upper right or left corner, not in a LH column. If not, then INS number must be blank? (3) There are several dates associated with the same fine - e.g. date of incident, date notice served, what appears to be date closed (bottom). Which date(s) should be entered?

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Extra Keying Helps

Additional Card Type

We have found a 2-sided card type in the project that seems to contain detailed information about automobile accidents.

<We have yet to see if this card type extends to other types of reports>

Example of Front Side of Card

Example of Back Side of Card

We key the front side in one data record. Most fields apply well. The examples seen have a case number.

We are to blank (Ctrl-B) the Subject field.

For the Date fields, we use the date in the upper right corner of the card.

The back side should be entered as a Cover Page so it will be in the data base next to the front side to be seen by people searching.

<open question of what to do if some data is present on the back side, like a name or two. I suppose it doesn't hurt to then treat that as a card to key with whatever data is present. But there may be an argument against that, that there is not enough data to make it useful.>

For my 2 cents, I would key the back side of the card if it had any fields to key. The ones with no information to key, could be marked as a cover page. -- Wiedwoman 18:18, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Common Keying Errors Found by Reviewers

Reminders and clarifications:

. We key a record for every INS number on the left side of the card (for the most common card format shown in the main wiki page)

. The INS number is to be keyed exactly as seen with commas, dashes, slashes, etc.

. We do not key company names, we still enter every record with an INS number even if there is no name

. Date entry is a big problem - enter dates with 2 digits or 4 digits as seen. Do not expand 2 digits to 4.

. Months are converted to the fully spelled out month name - not digits or abbreviations. Don't let the keying tool fool you into using abbreviations!

. The day of the month is not to have a leading zero added.

. The original typist often put his/her initials after the date. Those are to be ignored.

Questions and Answers

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I am a new keyer and I find the help to be somewhat disorganized and I keep finding new places to look. I can see from this area I have been making the error of converting 2 digit dates to 4 digits because this was in the keying standards but is project specific to this one? I wonder why the Sen for Senator is accepted but Cong for Congressman is not? Is there a way for you to add this. I do know I can accept all instances on the same card but I have had more Cong than Sen and it is annoying. Thank you.

I am another new keyer. I am looking at cards that appear to relate to fines assessed by INS. I have 3 questions: (1) Is the fine title and/or number the subject? It appears on either the upper left or the right upper. (2) Is the fine number the INS Reference number? Again, it appears on either the upper right or left corner, not in a LH column. If not, then INS number must be blank? (3) There are several dates associated with the same fine - e.g. date of incident, date notice served, what appears to be date closed (bottom). Which date(s) should be entered?